# The boring, narrow niche is the moat

- Category: mindset
- Author: Mihai (https://indie.md/people/mihai-balint/)
- Source: https://indie.md/journeys/mihai-ocrskill/
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OCRskill extracts structured data from procurement documents. It is not glamorous, and that is exactly why it is defensible. A narrow, unsexy, high-volume job is one most founders skip while looking for something more exciting, which leaves the field open to whoever is willing to go deep on it. Mihai out-specializes general LLMs on document extraction precisely because he only does that one thing. Boring problems with real, repeated demand are where a solo builder can build something a frontier lab will never bother to beat.